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Wednesday Night #1769
January 27, 2016, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1769

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  David Jones takes the opportunity to publish in The Metropolita ...

Wednesday Night #1768
January 20, 2016, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1768

The rich, powerful, famous, and even infamous, are congregating in the temporarily gated community of Davos for the 46th ...

Wednesday Night 1767
January 13, 2016, Comments Off on Wednesday Night 1767

The death of David Bowie over the weekend has unleashed a world-wide torrent of eulogies absent only (unless we missed s ...

Wednesday Night #1766
January 6, 2016, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1766

After a fascinating and informative debate on climate change, it was agreed that ascribing blame -even establishing caus ...

Wednesday Night #1765
December 30, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1765

The presence of Marion Canute changed the focus of the evening’s discussion to her recent experiences as the Germa ...

Wednesday Night #1764
December 23, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1764

Our traditional just-before-Christmas Wednesday Night is doubly celebratory as we will have our Singapore family with us ...

Wednesday Night #1763
December 16, 2015, 1 Comment

 P R E L U D E 1763 – Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain; plus the Royal Proc ...

Wednesday Night #1762
December 9, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1762

We are compelled to lead with the most outrageous story of the week: Donald Trump’s call for a ban on Muslims ente ...

Wednesday Night #1761
December 2, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1761

We were delighted to welcome Andrew Caddell  from Ottawa after a long absence. Andrew, who has been has been a reporter ...

Wednesday Night #1760
November 25, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1760

Honoring our WN tradition of linking to historic events of the year, we hit pay dirt with 1760: From July 1760, Amherst ...

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